New Campaign Settings For D&D Are Finally On The Way, Teases Job Listing
Dungeons & Dragons appears to be ready to start developing new worlds and settings for its tabletop game along with the wider franchise. The D&D franchise consists of several different worlds, also known as campaign settings. The Forgotten Realms (home of Baldur's Gate 3 and many other video games) is the best-known of these settings, but others include Planescape, Spelljammer, Greyhawk, Eberron, and Ravenloft. These campaign settings are not only home to classic D&D stories and adventures, but they also serve as valuable templates for DMs who want to create their own worlds.
Over the weekend, Wizards of the Coast posted a job listing that hints that new Dungeons & Dragons worlds are on the way. The job posting is for a "Senior Narrative Worldbuilding Designer," specifically for the Dungeons & Dragons franchise. The job listing specifically notes that the world-building designer will create "exciting new settings and develop existing ones" with the new settings added to the D&D multiverse. The new role will also aid in keeping these worlds consistent over multiple platforms, including video games, entertainment, and the D&D tabletop game.
Why D&D's New Worlds Is A Big Deal
Dungeons & Dragons Hasn't Fully Fleshed Out A New World In Decades
While Dungeons & Dragons has traditionally explored new worlds and new campaign settings over its 50-year history, the game design team largely stopped expanding its multiverse over the past 15 years. After the release of the Nentir Vale setting with the release of the Fourth Edition in 2008, Wizards largely focused on either updating existing campaign settings or building out settings from its Magic: The Gathering franchise. Exceptions to this included two books focused on Critical Role's Exandria and the Radiant Citadel, which featured short adventures in a variety of new settings.
However, D&D hinted earlier this year that it would start to expand its multiverse to include brand-new worlds. At a recent press event at Wizards of the Coast, D&D franchise head Jess Lanzillo mentioned that a reorganization within their teamhelped bring world-building to the forefront. "With Jeremy Crawford taking on the game director role and then Chris Perkins taking on the creative director role is that we were able to really reestablish a world building environment," Lanzillo said. "What does that mean? We can really establish our worlds and settings like the Forgotten Realms and also look to creating new ones again."
Our Take: It's Time For D&D To Build Something New
This Could Be A Chance To Explore Brand New Worlds And Inspire A Generation Of New Players
Assuming that fully-fleshed new worlds are coming, it would mark the biggest addition to D&D's multiverse since Eberron. The steampunk-inspired setting has remained popular with fans since its release in 2024, to the point that D&D made an Eberron book its first new campaign setting book for Fifth Edition play outside the Forgotten Realms. New campaign settings mean new ideas and concepts and new ways to play Dungeons & Dragons. I can't wait to see how these worlds are developed in the coming years. Hopefully, they bring a ton of new ideas and inspiration to players everywhere.
Source: LinkedIn, EN World
- Franchise
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Original Release Date
- 1974
- Publisher
- TSR Inc., Wizards of the Coast
- Designer
- E. Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson
- Player Count
- 2-7 Players
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